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Featuring topics like green infrastructure, new mobilities, sustainable tech, urban mobility The Fintech Stage: Dive into the evolution of monetary exchanges and follow the technology that is powering new ways of capturing and distributing value and wealth.

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What chip shortage? MagicCube raises $15M to ‘replace all chips,’ starting with POS terminals

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